Fear Conditioning and Affective Modulation of the Startle Reflex in Male Adolescents with Early-Onset or Adolescence-Onset Conduct Disorder and Healthy Control Subjects

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 279-285

  Fairchild, Graeme ^a   Van Goozen, Stephanie H ^b   Stollery, Sarah J ^a   Goodyer, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; amygdala; antisocial behavior; conduct disorder; fear conditioning; startle

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EYELID REFLEX; FEAR; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONDUCT DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEAR; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 37849031691     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.06.019     Document Type: Article

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